Browns Safety Flag for Chucking George Pickens’s Mouthguard on Snowy Field

On November 22, 2024By Littum

The Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers played a snowy game Thursday night football to start Week 12. Even without the weather, it was an old-school AFC North matchup between two longtime rivals, so it’s no surprise that tempers flared every now and then.

One of those incidents occurred in the fourth quarter as the Steelers tried to get back into the game. Trailing 18-6, Pittsburgh lost two yards on first-and-goal, but a flag was thrown. The call was unsportsmanlike conduct. What actually happened was kind of funny.

Replays showed Browns safety Grant Delpit grabbing the mouthpiece of Steelers wide receiver George Pickens. Delpit grabbed the mouthpiece and threw it on the snow ground. It was as harmless an unsportsmanlike penalty as you will ever see – which made it all the more amusing for the referee to announce that if he did it again he would be sent off.

Personal foul here on the Browns. Pickens gets his mouthpiece grabbed from the helmet #steelmachines #brown pic.twitter.com/Fg6zCUVQ40

— Rate the Refs App (@Rate_the_Refs) 22 November 2024

Pittsburgh scored on the very next play.